Non-WoW gaming
Wanted to mention:
My World My Way: Cute little RPG by Atlus, brilliantly localized. You're a spoiled princess who's always used to having her way, and she falls in love with an adventuring hero who tells her "Bah, you're a spoiled princess. You don't know anything about the real world." so she runs away from home to become an adventurer and learn about the world. The king lets her go, with one of his soldiers to secretly guide her along the way by making sure the challenges aren't too tough for her and stuff. It's a lot of fun, with a quirkyness because the princess can Pout for things she wants using special "Pout Points" like "wah, the monsters aren't dropping enough gold!" and "I don't like this grassy field. I want it to be a forest! No wait, forests are boring too. Make it a dancing forest!" and the terrain changes to a dancing forest. This game has just the right amount of fun + simplicity that I'm thinking about writing a guide for it.
Spore: Yes, I've been pulled back into Spore, at least for now. I made a race of armless birdlike creatures that I molded into the Knight archetype and I'm working on building their space empire. Woo!
Sims 3: Played it a little bit before it was out, but I'm holding off on getting completely addicted until I buy a legal copy. They totally deserve my money for that game.
Pokemon Pearl: Khoa found a cheat I could apply to my R4 copy of the game that would let me get craptons of experience whenever I want to, basically allowing myself to do the "catch every pokemon I see and keep them all around the same level" thing that I always want to do, but am always prevented from doing due to the incredibly low amount of experience given by wild pokemon. This is on hold for now due to My World My Way.
Oblivion: I have my perfected level 40 character, but now am at a loss for what to do with him. I've done a few quests, had my ass handed to me by the random monsters I come in contact with (cast shield, summon Clannfear, unsheath magic stat-debuffing sword, slice at enemy to debuff them, start pummeling them with touch-based fire spells while my Clannfear keeps them busy) and usually can't play for more than an hour or two. Also, still doesn't run on MY computer, so I have to use Khoa's to play -- but I think I'd rather be playing Spore at the moment.
Looking forward to:
Champions Online: Was originally looking forward to the July release date so that this game could distract me from WoW's new patch 3.2 of awesomeness. I want to create a superhero based on my Vexis persona, a silver dragonlike creature (as best it will allow me) with healing/buffing powers and wind/nature based attacks. Unfortunately, the release date has been pushed back to September 1st, and with WoW 3.2 already on the PTR, I'll probably be pulled into my new orc shaman persona on WoW by the time Champions is out.
Aion: An absolutely beautiful asian MMO where you play as good and evil angels, that I kinda want to check out because of how pretty it is, but I'm questioning the whole "PvPvE" idea. Apparently, end-game raid bosses are outdoor bosses, and they want you to fight the raid boss while at the same time competing against players of the opposing faction who are trying to stop you or kill the boss themselves. If it doesn't have PvE-only servers, that'll be a dealbreaker for me, but I'm still keeping my mind open for now. Thankfully, it finally has a release date of September 22nd, which probably means I'll be too busy with Champions and/or WoW to care about Aion.
06/24/09 01:14:13 pm, 